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Yes, private banks are safer
The ‘safety’ of PSBs comes at a cost that we’re paying for — though we’re currently unaware of it LATE LAST week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) put a moratorium on the withdrawals of deposits from Yes Bank, the fourth largest private sector bank in the country. The interesting thing is that the Yes […]
Trio who drowned bank
A forensic audit of Yes Bank’s deals with the trio — Ambani, Wadhawan and Chandra — is likely to reveal many more skeletons in the closet AT INDIABULLS Finance Centre, a commercial complex of three skyscrapers in Mumbai’s unkempt, crammed suburb of Lower Parel, Yes Bank’s headquarters is eerily quiet. After the fourth largest private bank […]
Heroes in the time of hate
Amidst the communal violence that ensued in North East Delhi, here are some stories that prove humanity still trumps hate in these terrible times AS NORTH East Delhi witnessed the worst riots the Capital has seen since 1984, many lives were lost, houses were burnt down and families were shattered. Amidst all this, people still […]
From curfew to competition
Kabra Altaf, the young athlete from Kashmir, fought more than her opponents to secure a bronze medal in judo during the 2020 Khelo India games weeks AFTER August 5, the day Jammu and Kashmir lost its special status granted under the provisions of Article 370, streets were shrunk, shops shut and people prisoned inside the […]
‘They want us to say we burnt our own masjid’
The family of Mohammed Danish claims he was detained for over four days without food or access to a toilet. He was then shifted to a juvenile centre EARLIER THIS week, we received a lead that a 17-year-old boy, Mohammad Danish, had been missing in North East Delhi since February 24. The violence in the […]
The mystery of Ankit Sharma’s Death
Reports on the IB staffer’s gruesome killing couldn’t agree on the basic facts and omitted some crucial context IN THE past week, 49 people were killed in communal violence in North East Delhi. One death received a larger slice of media focus: that of 26-year-old Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma, whose body was retrieved from […]
Venom of communal hatred spares none
Molested, beaten and in shock, the mothers and minors of North East Delhi relive the day everything changed AL HIND hospital has been inundated with victims of the riots which engulfed North East Delhi from the evening of February 23 to the 27th. In these five hellish days, the hospital in the Muslim-dominated area also […]
Lessons in inhumanity
What do schools have to do with religion, ask the students of institutions which were deliberately targeted by mobs and burnt down to the ground MEENAKSHI HAS soot on her face from looking through the remains of what was once her home. The 12-year-old looks despondent when we meet her at the school where she […]